About COHANDS India

Vision

  • Enhance and adapt skill through design interventions.
  • Enhance productivity and income through technical upgradation.
  • Assist sustainable development and responsible working conditions
  • Assist in marketing through domestic and international channels.
  • Provide assistance and guidance for achieving better social environment.
  • Provide help and assistance in developing sound environmental regime / management.
  • Preserves and protects the intellectual rights of marginalized regions / communities.
  • Provides a forum for organizations and businesses, both at national and international levels to interact,
    leading to a better environment for development of crafts.

COHANDS, a facilitator, provides necessary impetus, thrust and direction to trade but does not engage itself in trade directly . But makes concerted efforts to maintain high quality and cultural heritage. A catalytic agent for promotion of handicrafts in the domestic and global markets. It preserves and protects the intellectual rights of marginalized region/communities.

  • Ensure the sustainable growth and development process through collective decision making and facilitation to bring about of transformation in the Handicrafts Sector.
  • To uplift socially and economically, the grass root - level artisans of Handicrafts sector.
  • To uplift socially and economically, the grass root - level artisans of Handicrafts sector.
  • Assist marginalized craftsmen (especially women craftsperson's) of rural areas to become self-supporting and economically sound.

COHANDS, a facilitator, provides necessary impetus, thrust and direction to trade but does not engage itself in trade directly . But makes concerted efforts to maintain high quality and cultural heritage. A catalytic agent for promotion of handicrafts in the domestic and global markets. It preserves and protects the intellectual rights of marginalized region/communities.

Mission